“Resources that would have gone into Ads and Rallies, will now have to be spent fighting these Radical Left Thugs in numerous courts”
Or you could spend your own money
“It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court must intercede,”
That isn’t how the court works you file in whatever court has jurisdiction then appeal if you have cause. It would be contrary to standards for them to even comment at this juncture.
If he wanted to campaign unimpeded he could have simply not committed the crimes he has openly admitted to on TV
Wait…
“Resources that would have gone into Ads and Rallies, will now have to be spent fighting these Radical Left Thugs in numerous courts”
Did he just admit to another crime?
I don’t think so. You can put your own money into running a political campaign.
However, the IMPLICATION that he uses campaign donations for his legal defense is there. And stupid MAGA donors will believe that’s how their money could be spent and that it’s OK.
It’s all super PAC money that has very little rules about its use. They’ve been using it thus way all along and openly raising money for legal defense. He may be admitting to exerting control over the super pac, which is supposed to be against the law, but seems to be practically unenforceable.
There’s a part of me that believes he only ran again because, aside from his ego, he believed it would make him immune to indictments.
Unfortunately Mango Mussolini could even be arrested and still win the presidency from prison… (Although it is a good thing the rules exist in that way)
Mango Mussolini
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Horrible hypothetical: he wins and pardons himself of all federal crimes, but he’s still convicted of state crimes in NY and GA and has prison sentences. What happens?
Constitutional crisis. Decent band name, horrible time to live through.
Reminds me of the old Chinese curse, ”may you live in interesting times.”
Nixon was apparently warned against trying to pardon himself because no man can be judge over his own case. Clear conflict of interest.
Idk how well that would hold up now as a reasoning, considering…. gestures broadly
So my question is, if he won the presidency from prison, would they let him out of prison during his presidential term? Would the White House temporarily have some black bars on it?
There is neither precedent or written rules for it. Whatever happens will be a case of ‘made up as we go along’
Imho that’s reason enough not to find out.
Imagine the global reputation hit from a convicted treasonous felon being the leader of the country… woof. So much worse than him just having the support of such a huge swath of the country…
IMO this is mainly a way to communicate taking points to his supporters. They want to start a lot of talk about Biden’s “election Interference” to make it feel like this is something both sides do but only Trump is getting charged for.
If he wanted to campaign unimpeded he could have simply not committed the crimes he has openly admitted to on TV
For being the party that supposedly represents “law and order”, Republicans really seem soft on crime (at least on the ones they continually committed).
Did he just say he was going to use campaign funds for personal benefit?
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You have to fix your formatting.
Can’t the SCOTUS adopt cases they think have some sort of importance outside of the apeal system? I thought I heard of them just recently doing that on a case they ruled on.
Typically they don’t but this supreme court has already shown what it thinks of established legal procedure.
adopt cases
there is no case to adopt… he wants them to create one or something, i don’t know… neither does he…
Yeah, basically the attorney general of some states claims that there was a business that was harmed by certain laws, which the business deny that they were harmed, but the supreme Court heard the case anyways and ruled that the business was actually harmed by said law so it was overturned.
That’s because Trump was trying to use the Justice Department to forward his own interests, so he assumes that any other president does/did the same thing.
and thereby discredit the government in general, which is always his purpose
His purpose is staying out of prison. Discrediting the government in general is a means to that end.
and stuffing his pockets with anything he can get his hands on in the chaos
Trump, the top contender in the Republican presidential primary, claimed that dealing with numerous ongoing legal battles amounts to “election interference” — the very thing he is accused of conspiring to do in his latest indictment.
He’s doing the DARVO thing again. Since he’s being accused of election interference, he’s using the “NO U” defense, and hoping “his people” at the Supreme Court bail him out.
It doesn’t work that way. If he wanted to have his time free to campaign, maybe he shouldn’t have done so much crime to begin with.
So… he did just admit to using election funds for his personal legal battles, which is illegal… right?
“It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court must intercede,” he wrote.
The first four words seem relevant to him, just not in the way he means.
every troll spams the GMs and Mods
Yeah right, the supreme Court has no actual jurisdiction over anything. What are they going to do, send in the army to free Trump?
Lol
I don’t think he knows how SCOTUS works…
Then again does the SCOTUS know how they work?
All according to their plan
Banana Republic energy here.
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On a related note of citrus, I think that henceforth lemmy users should call themselves lemons.
he must not be getting enough help in Congress outside of the usual loonies so he’s moving on to another branch of government.
He actually put in effort to pack the court in favor of the Republicans. Of course he wants a ROI.
Squirm motherfucker! Prison soon!
This isn’t news.
